To: edcoil
Prop 22 in Calif was a change to the Constitution, not a law to be ruled on my the courts, it is actually the opposite. We told the government how to operate and what laws they can pass. Yes; I'm curious how an amendment to the Constitution can be un-Constitutional. By definition, amendments are Constitutional as they are the Constitution.
50 posted on
03/14/2005 12:40:23 PM PST by
Kretek
To: Kretek; edcoil
Proposition 22 was not a Constitutional Amendment.
It only changed California's family law code to prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages.
If it had been a Constitional Amendment, the issue would already be dead. See post 42--it looks like there is an effort to initiate a Constitional Amendment now.
To: Kretek; edcoil
Prop 22 was not an amendment to the Constitution, it added a statute to the Family Code. Thus (although in reality it is not) a judge could find it unconstitutional
To: Kretek
No. It was an amendment to California's Family Code. A state law at variance with the State Constitution CAN be declared unconstitutional. Though I'm at a loss to see how confining marriage between a man and a woman violates any one's rights.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
308 posted on
03/14/2005 6:09:04 PM PST by
goldstategop
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